Scrap-book.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRED N. LANG, OF SOUTH SUPERIOR, WISCONSIN.

SCRAP-BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 675,226, dated May 28, 1901. pplication led March 10, 1900. Serial No. 8,240. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, FRED N. LANG, a citizen of the United States, residing at South Superior, in the county of Douglas and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Scrap-Books5 and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which illustrate one form in which I have contemplated embodying my invention,and said invention is fully disclosed in the following description and claims.

In carrying my invention into effect I provide the sheets or leaves of a scrap-book with mnistenable adhesive materiai,ar1'anged thereon in narrow vertical parallel lines, (which may be either continuous lines or broken lines of separated dots or dashes of adhesive material-,) said parallel lines being themselves of less width than the distance be tween the lines and the distance between adjacent lines being less than the width of the clippings to be attached, In practice I prefer to arrange the lines at a distance of about an inch apart on the page.

By my construction I obtain the following novel and advantageous results.

First. By arranging a series of adhesive lines on a sheet of paper parallel to each other and about one inch apart the rows of clippings attached thereto will partially overlap each other, and a large number of clippings can be placed in a given space.

Second. The use of a dotted instead of a continuous line of adhesive material prevents the drawing and wrinkling of the sheet and at the same time admits of a heavier deposit of the adhesive material, the advantage of which is that it will hold a clipping by a very narrow portion of its edge, and also the clipping can be removed byrdampening the same and a sufficient quantity of adhesive material be left on the sheet to receive and hold a second clipping.

Third. By arranging the lines of adhesive material at a distance of about one inch from each other and attaching the clippings to the adhesive line by a narrow portion of one edge only the clippings will partially overlap each other; but by bending any clipping back upon itself the partially-underlying clipping will be brought into view, and at the same time the reverse side of the bent clipping can be fully seen and read.

Fourth. The arrangement of the lines in the above-mentioned manner, together with the method of attaching the clippings by a narrow portion of their edge only, leaves a blank space on the sheet atthe side of each clipping in which memoranda as to the source from whence the clipping'was obtained or other desired references can be written in.

In describing my invention in detail reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a sheet of paper or similar material upon which is shown a series of adhesive lines for use as a receptacle for clippings,bills,letters,pictures,&c.,the one marked a being continuous and the one marked b being what is called a broken line. The one marked c is a single-dot line, and the one marked d consists of an aggregation of dots. This dotted line d illustrates my manner of applying the adhesive material to paper when producing what is known as gummed paper. Attached to the adhesive lines e ce are several clippings marked fffff. The clipping marked g is folded back upon itself in such a manner as to show its reverse side, and at the same time it exposes to view the partially-underlying clippings.

In Fig. 2 is show n the application of the dotted or broken adhesive line to various forms for the holding and exhibiting of postagestamps, photographs, &c., in which it is often found desirable to hold by more than one side or edge, and as these articles often Vary in size it has been found desirable to make the forms of dotted lines of different sizes, one withinthe other, as is shown by h and 7c.

The application of clippings, bills, letters, pictures, &c., to the adhesive lines herein described requires that the adhesive line or that portion of the clipping, dac., to be attached be moistened and the two pressed together until stuck.

I am aware of the existence of Letters Patent Nos. 140,245, 237,061, and 595,467 and do not claim as new the placing of gum upon paper to receive pastings, nor the placing of IOO gum upon a portion of the sheet only; but what I do claim as my invention is the arrangement of such gum as shown above, which avoids the warping and wrinkling of the sheets and admits of the use of only such portion of the gum as may be required for each clipping without moistening the unused portion of such gum and accomplishes the overlapping of clippings, securing on one page a great number of columns, sticking but a small portion thereof, regardless of the part moistened.

By my construction of leaf I secure the folvided with moistenable adhesive material lowing new and important results: First, no matter how wide a portion of a clipping (or other article) is moistened, when it is placed with its edge over one of the narrow lines of adhesive only a narrow portion along the edge can be pasted to the leaf; second, a large number of rows of clippings, one overlapping thc other, can be pasted across a page; third, each clipping can be lifted to eX- pose its reverse side and the clipping beneath it, and, fourth, the wrinkling of the leaf is substantially prevented.

Having described the objects, manner of making, and plan for using my invention, I desire that Letters Patent be granted to me for the. following claims:

1. A leaf for a self-pasting scrap-book provided with moistenable adhesive material arranged thereon in narrow,vertical parallel lines, the -distance between said lines being much less than the width of the clippings to be secured to the page, and the said lines being of less width than the spaces between the lines, whereby a clipping will be attached merely by a narrow edge, notwithstanding that a larger part of the clipping is moistened, whereby a series of rows of clippings overlapping each other may be secured across the page, and whereby each clipping may be lifted to expose its reverse side, and the clipping which it overlaps, substantially as de- I scribed.

2. A leaf for a selfpasting scrap-book, proplaced thereon in minute dots arranged in narrow vertical, parallel lines, the distance between the lines being much less than the width of the clippings to be secured to the page, the said lines of less width than the spaces between the lines, and so narrow as to attach a clipping merely by a narrow edge, notwithstanding that a larger part of the clipping is moistened whereby the wrinkling of the page is avoided, a series of rows of clippings overlapping each other may be secured across the page, and cach clipping may be lifted to expose its reverse side and the clipping which it overlaps, substantially as described.

FRED N. LANG. Witnesses:

E. N. PADDocK, S. A. PADDOCK. 

